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Monumentum

Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim
Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.
TNMM177 – CIMRM 1289
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Neuenheim
Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.
TNMM48 – CIMRM 1282
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Osterburken
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
TNMM70 – CIMRM 1291
Monumentum

Felsgeburt des Mithras
Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.
TNMM237 – CIMRM 1687
Monumentum

Altar to Mithras and Mars of Mainz
This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.
TNMM513
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et Marti / Secundini/us Amantius / cornicu(larius) / praef(ecti) leg(ionis) / XXII permi/ttente Pri/mulo patre / ex voto pos/uit l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
Monumentum

Lion-headed figure of Mérida
The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.
TNMM241 – CIMRM 776
Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Bingen
The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.
TNMM519 – CIMRM 1243
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo invicto / Mytrhe (sic!) ara/m ex voto dei / de suo impen/dio instituer(unt) / A(ulus) Gratius Iuven/is pater sacroru/m et A(ulus) Gratius Po/tens m(iles) l(egionis…
Mithraeum

Mithraeum I of Stockstadt
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
TNMM400
Mithraeum

Mithraeum II of Stockstadt
The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.
TNMM573
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Fellbach
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.
TNMM563
Syndexios

Publius Aelius Vocco
Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.
Monumentum

Altar of Kalkar
This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.
TNMM507
D(eo) I(nvicto) I(mperatori) / Ulp(ius) ( Am(---) · ( p(ater) / s(acrorum) aes · ex ius-su · ip·sius
Syndexios

Aulus Gratius Potens
Dedicated an altar together with his bother in Bingium.
Monumentum

Altar of Mérida from Quintio
This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.
TNMM520 – CIMRM 794
Inuicto Deo / Quintio Flaui / Baetici Conim/brig(ensis) ser(uus) / pro sa(lute) Coutii Lupi
Syndexios

Aulus Gratius Iuvenis
Pater who dedicated an altar together with his bother in Bingium.
Syndexios

Mercatorius Castrensis
Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Riegel
A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
TNMM54
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Heidenfeld
TNMM89
Monumentum

Mithraic vessel of Mainz
The Mithraic vase from Ballplatz in Mainz shows seven figures performing different sequences of an initiation ritual.
TNMM235
Syndexios

Primulus
Pater at Mainz.